Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After more than two weeks of paralyzing idleness, Britain's trains were running again. But settlement of the railway strike gave the Eden government little more relief than that of a householder who puts out a fire in the living room only to find his front yard engulfed by a flood. Allowed to move freely through the countryside once more, huge piles of export freight and armies of overseas-bound passengers found themselves stopped short at Britain's shores by a 25-day-old dockers' strike and a wildcat walkout of seamen manning the Commonwealth...
...shorter work week-44 hours as opposed to what they call the 56-70 hours now demanded of them. As the week drew on, the strikers immobilized the biggest prize of all, the Queen Mary. Fuming with indignation because the shipowners had pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds of the Mary's passengers, many of them U.S. tourists, were bundled off the ship and deposited back in London, to stand holding wilted flowers and half-empty champagne bottles in Waterloo Station. "I'm going to see my Congressman...
...Strike Me Like a Ton." When Senator John McClellan of Arkansas tried to find out how Lev's Mid-City Uniform Cap Co. was able to cut its bid on military caps below competitors after all bids were supposedly in, Lev swore it was all news to him, insisting, "This is really strike me like a ton over my head." Suddenly, he leaped up and began passing around pictures of his plant, refusing to heed Senator McClellan's order to stop. "I'm proud of this plant," he cried, holding up the hearing while he distributed pictures...
Died. Pattillo Higgins, 92, Texas oilman who triggered the Spindletop strike near Beaumont which ushered in the oil age; in Houston (see BUSINESS...
...COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, by Warren Eyster (597 pp.; Random House; $4.95), is the slowest-starting melodrama since John Hersey covered umpteen pages before breaching The Wall. To fill his big picture of violence in a strike-torn Pennsylvania steel town, Novelist Warren Eyster starts 50 years back and paints all the ancestors as carefully as the main figures who finally dominate the canvas. Never relenting for so much as a chuckle, Novelist Eyster fastens his eye on personal as well as social change ("Irene had become a better person. She appeared to have learned that sacrifice was not necessarily...